WOULD BE MASSACRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 6

WOULD BE MASSACRE

MODERN WARFARE AN OUTSPOKEN -GENERAL POISON GAS MENACE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Nov. 27, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 26. . “War nowadays would be massacre,” declared Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier. He added: “A general strike should immediately follow a threat of war. If we must si Her, let us suffer for peace and justice. Armchair and cenotaph patriotism are all founded on rot and loose talk. “Women, instead of encouraging men to become tailors’ dummies, might discourage war by pointing to khaki-clad men and exclaiming; ‘What silly asses you look.’ Poison gas was abolished through chivalry, yet the Government bad a more dangerous gas even than that which another great country possessed, lie said. Scientists were unable to devise masks to exclude their own gas. War was a put-up job. If we had an understanding with Germany and Italy regarding peace with honor, it would be of the greatest benefit to Europe. Tlie Bishop of Fulham, speaking at a war memorial service, urged nil to resolve to do their utmost to prevent a recurrence of war. lie believed that the necessity of armed forces, to which nations must sometimes resort in the fulfilment of obligations toward Europe, for years to come would be' a. menace to peace. Therefore, lie was not fanatically in favor of such disarmament as would leave Britain powerless to defend her heritage and fulfil her obligations, but Englishmen must end wars of aggression.